One the best ever celebrated Indian Sweet / Festive sweet of all time,and we don't need any reasons to eat these soft,melt-in-mouth Gulab Jamun's.

Gulab Jamun

#ValentineMe
By Vinay Kumar

Feb, 16th

723

Servings
5 persons
Cook Time
30 minutes
Ingredients
7 - 9

Ingredients

  • 1 & 1/4 Cup Khoya
  • 1/3 Cup Maida
  • Baking Soda
  • Milk
  • 2 Cups Sugar
  • 2 Cups Water
  • 1 Tsp Ground Cardamom
  • 1 Tsp Rose Essence
  • 2 Cup Oil + Ghee

Instructions

  • In a bowl, add Khoya, maida,baking soda and mix well.The Khoya will be of crumbled texture so knead it well with milk. Keep this aside for 5 mins. Add milk little by little to make soft dough of the mixture. Cover the dough and keep aside.
  • In a pan, add sugar and water and boil it. Let the sugar dissolve completely. Boil this for around 7-8 mins on medium flame till the syrup is slightly thick and still will be easily soaked up by jamuns. Turn off the gas.Add cardamom crushed and rose essence.
  • Apply little ghee to your palm and make small round balls of dough. Make sure there are no cracks in the ball.In a frying pan, add oil and ghee.Use equal quantity of both.When its hot drop in 4-5 jamuns at a time and fry on low flame. Do not overcrowd the frying pan.Keep turning the jamuns frequently.When they are golden brown in color, take them out.Drain them on tissue paper.Drop the jamuns when they are warm in the sugar syrup.Make sure the sugar syrup is warm too.